Meanings
adjectiveassonantal (comparative more assonantal, superlative most assonantal)
comparative more assonantal · superlative most assonantal
- assonant
How often on the contemporary poetry scene do we come across so relentlessly assonantal a hum as in these lines from "Later Meeting": Tying your hair/for our long walk, you carom in your new/room arms akimbo, hips adrift, miming/all our enemies.
1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9
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